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September 2023 Children’s & YA New Releases

It’s back-to-school season! Teachers and librarians, check out this long list of great books! They range from picture to young adult, with topics from afro unicorns to witches, and everything in between. To see more books by Black authors released in 2023, go to our New Releases page.


Picture Books



The Artivist

Nikkolas Smith | Kokila | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Locs Not Dreads

Tonya Abari | Chasity Hampton | The Innovation Press | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Wangari Speaks Out*

Wangari Maathai | Laia de Ahumada | Vanina Starkoff | Susan Ouriou | Groundwood Books | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Kicks in the Sky

C.G. Esperanza | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Mama’s Sleeping Scarf

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Joelle Avelino | Knopf Publishing Group | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop



Ally Baby Can: Be Antiracist

Nyasha Williams | Jade Orlando | HarperCollins | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Lion on the Inside: How One Girl Changed Basketball

Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir | Judith Henderson | Katherine Ahmed | Kids Can Press | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


My Mother Was a Nanny

Laura James | Groundwood Books | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


We Are Afro Unicorns (Afro Unicorn Series)

April Showers | Anthony Conley | Golden Books | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


A Magical Day (Afro Unicorn Series)

April Showers | Anthony Conley | Random House BYR | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop



Old to Joy

Anita Crawford Clark | Gnome Road Publishing | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


I Am an Antiracist Superhero: With Activities to Help You Be One Too!

Jennifer Nicole Bacon | Letícia Moreno | Bala Kids | September 5, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


My Hair Is Like the Sun

St. Clair Detrick-Jules | Tabitha Brown | Chronicle Books | September 12, 2023 | BdBk | Amazon | Bookshop


Prak Fills the House

Donna L. Washington | Lauren Emmons | Holiday House | September 12, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Major Taylor: World Cycling Champion

Charles R. Smith | Leo Espinosa | Candlewick | September 12, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop



Bigger Than Me

Erica Simone Turnipseed | Kara Bodegón-Hikino | Caitlyn Dlouhy Books | PB | September 12, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


Jayylen’s Christmas Wish

Lavaille Lavette | David Wilkerson | Golden Books | September 12, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Invincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America

Wade Hudson | E.B. Lewis | Calkins Creek | September 12, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


The Walk

Winsome Bingham | E. B. Lewis | Abrams BYR | September 12, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


A Walk in the Woods

Nikki Grimes | Jerry Pinkney | Brian Pinkney | Neal Porter Books | September 12, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop



Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure (A Let’s Play Outside! Book) 

Shauntay Grant | Candice Bradley | Harry N. Abrams | September 19, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Where Did Benjamin Go?

Chris Clarkson | Annalise Barber | Abrams BYR | September 19, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams

Tanisia Moore | Robert Paul Jr. | Scholastic Press | September 19, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Legends of Hip-Hop: 2Pac

Pen Ken | Saxton Moore | HarperFestival | September 19, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Legends of Hip-Hop: Queen Latifah

Pen Ken | Saxton Moore | HarperFestival | September 19, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop



Loud and Proud: The Life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm

Lesa Cline-Ransome | Kaylani Juanita | Paula Wiseman Books | September 19, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Harlem at Four

Dr. Michael Datcher | Frank Morrison | Random House Studio | September 19, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Time to Go, Larry

Alison Hawkins | Scholastic/Orchard | September 19, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


I’m From

Gary R. Gray Jr. | Oge Mora | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray | September 19, 2023 MG | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Something, Someday

Amanda Gorman | Christian Robinson | Viking BYR | September 26, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop



Ninja Nate

Markette Sheppard | Robert Paul Jr. | S&S/Denene Millner | September 26, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Black Girls

Dominique Furukawa | Erika Lynne Jones | HarperCollins | September 26, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


See You on the Other Side

Rachel Montez Minor | Mariyah Rahman | Crown BYR | September 26, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Coretta’s Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King

Alice Faye Duncan | R. Gregory Christie | Calkins Creek | September 26, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


 Abolition Is Love

Syrus Marcus Ware | Alannah Fricker | ‎Triangle Square | September 26, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Chapter/Middle-Grade



Maxie Wiz and the Magic Charms

Michelle Meadows | Sawyer Cloud | Random House BYR | September 5, 2023 | Early Reader | Amazon | Bookshop


Makeda Makes a Birthday Treat

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich | Lydia Mba | Balzer + Bray | September 5, 2023 | Early Reader | Amazon | Bookshop


The Gold Bowl (Rainbow Days, Bk. 2)

Valerie Bolling | Kai Robinson | Scholastic | September 5, 2023 | Early Reader | Amazon | Bookshop


Finch House

Ciera Burch | Margaret K. McElderry Books | September 5, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


Mascot

Charles Waters | Traci Sorell | Charlesbridge | September 5, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop



Nightmare King

Daka Hermon | Scholastic Press | September 5, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


Who Was Accused in the Salem Witch Trials?: Tituba

Insha Fitzpatrick | Who HQ | Rowan MacColl | Penguin Workshop | September 5, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


The Trailblazing Life of Viola Desmond: A Civil Rights Icon

Rachel Kehoe | Wanda Robson | Chelsea Charles | Orca Book Publishers | MG | September 12, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop


Ten-Word Tiny Tales to Inspire and Unsettle

Joseph Coelho | Various Artists | Candlewick | September 12, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop


Weekend & Zay

RaQia Lowo | Christian Paniagua | Reycraft Books | September 12, 2023 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop



Micah Hudson: Football Fumble

Tanisia Moore | Aeron Cargill | Reycraft Books | September 12, 2023 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop


Rick Riordan Presents: Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem

Roseanne A. Brown | Rick Riordan Presents | September 12, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


Slavery and the African American Story (Race to the Truth)

Patricia Williams Dockery | Crown Books for Young Readers | September 12, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


Recipe for Success (Love Puppies #4) 

JaNay Brown-Wood | Scholastic | September 19, 2023 | ChBk | Amazon | Bookshop


Kin: Rooted in Hope

Carole Boston Weatherford | Jeffery Boston Weatherford | Atheneum BYR | September 19, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop



Adia Kelbara and the Circle of Shamans 

Isi Hendrix | Balzer + Bray | September 19, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus!

Atinuke | Lauren Tobia | Candlewick | September 26, 2023 | ChBk | Amazon | Bookshop


Merry Christmas, Anna Hibiscus! 

Atinuke | Lauren Tobia | Candlewick | September 26, 2023 | ChBk | Amazon | Bookshop


The Memory Thieves (A Conjuror Novel, Bk. 2)

Dhonielle Clayton | Henry Holt BYR | September 26, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


Salsa Magic

Letisha Marrero | Levine Querido | September 26, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop



The Longest Night in Egypt (The Shadow Prince #2)

Tu Books | Lee & Low Books | September 26, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


Rayleigh Mann in the Company of Monsters

Ciannon Smart | HarperCollins | September 26, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


Alex Wise vs. the End of the World

Terry J Benton-Walker | Labyrinth Rd/PRH | September 26, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


Susie King Taylor: Nurse, Teacher & Freedom Fighter

Erica Armstrong Dunbar | Candace Buford | Aladdin | September 26, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop


All Systems Whoa (Abby in Orbit, Bk. 3)

Andrea J. Loney | Fuuji Takashi | Albert Whitman & Company | September 28, 2023 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop


Young Adult



There’s No Way I’d Die First

Lisa Springer | Delacorte | September 5, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


Everyone’s Thinking It

Aleema Omotoni | Balzer + Bray | September 5, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


Monstrous

Jessica Lewis | Delacorte Press | September 12, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


Goddess Crown

Shade Lapite | Walker Books US | September 12, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


Shadow Coven (The Witchery, Book 2)

S. Isabelle | ‎Scholastic Press | September 19, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop



All the Fighting Parts

Hannah V. Sawyerr | Amulet Books | September 19, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


A Crown So Cursed (The Nightmare-Verse)

L.L. McKinney | Feiwel & Friends | September 19, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


Nubia: The Reckoning

Omar Epps | Clarence A. Haynes | Delacorte Press | September 26, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


Thieves’ Gambit

Kayvion Lewis | Penguin/Nancy Paulsen Books | September 26, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


The Changing Man

Tomi Oyemakinde | Feiwel & Friends | September 26, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop


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